🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bridled Tern live?

Onychoprion anaethetus has 75,202 records in 138 countries and territories, from 1699 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeOnychoprion

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 20,257
United States 12,970
Taiwan 9,243
India 6,979
United Arab Emirates 1,975
Sri Lanka 1,904
Indonesia 1,713
Puerto Rico 1,130
Costa Rica 1,033
Hong Kong 1,032
Thailand 1,023
Seychelles 937
Oman 899
Mexico 890
Guadeloupe 889
China 651
Israel 635
Bahamas 555
Grenada 554
Panama 515
Singapore 488
Malaysia 448
Palau 371
Fiji 341
Kuwait 319
Portugal 306
United Kingdom 302
Trinidad & Tobago 277
Cayman Islands 246
Papua New Guinea 245
Spain 222
Cabo Verde 186
New Caledonia 182
Solomon Islands 172
Belize 165
Honduras 161
Anguilla 159
Saudi Arabia 154
France 153
Sweden 145

Showing the top 40 of 138 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.